From tech start-ups to conflict zones: My journey to becoming an Doctors Without Borders project coordinator
Sarah was project coordinator at Doctors Without Borders’s Boost Hospital in the city of Lashkar Gar, Afghanistan. Here she shares her story.
War and conflict
Palestine
Responding to the injured in Jerusalem: “The patients kept on coming like waves”
On Friday, 15 April 2022, Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem and injured over 150 Palestinians, including children. Carlo Brugio...
War and conflict
Palestine
Gaza: Some wounds never heal
From 10th to 21st of May 2021, Israeli airstrikes and shelling on the Gaza Strip killed 256 people, including 66 children. Around 2,000 Palestinians w...
War and conflict
Ukraine
Ukraine: Caring for the vulnerable people left behind by the war
Doctors Without Boders' Dr Natalie Roberts has just come back from Ukraine, where she witnessed the severe challenges facing some of the most vulnerab...
War and conflict
Ukraine
“You have a medical train? I have patients for you.”
On the morning of Friday 1 April, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) finalised the first transfer or patients using a medical tr...
War and conflict
Ukraine
Life under bombing in Mariupol: How long will this disaster continue?
A personal account from a long-time staff member of Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from Mariupol, Ukraine. Sasha describes l...
War and conflict
Ukraine
Ukraine: Urgent Humanitarian Race Against Time
Anja Wolz, Doctors Without Borders Emergency Coordinator currently based in Lviv, Ukraine, explains the urgency of this stage of the humanitarian resp...
War and conflict
Afghanistan
Nine months in Afghanistan
When Mamman Mustapha joined the Doctors Without Borders team in Afghanistan, it was for a short assignment in a ‘relatively quiet’ part of the country...
